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FLOSS Works for Indians

Published by Robert Pogson June 18th, 2011 in technology. 0 Comments

In India, the expense of licensing non-free software sometimes exceeds the salaries of the employees…

In the article below, a lakh is 100,000 and a crore is 10 million.

A financial services company was paying 1.5 lakhs per PC for licences but an employee on average cost only 1.0 lakh. By converting to FLOSS they did not have to pay software licences. Continue reading ‘FLOSS Works for Indians’

- Robert Pogson

My Mission

My observations and opinions about IT are based on 40 years of use in science and technology and lately, in education. I like IT that is fast, cost-effective and reliable. I do not care whether my solution is the same as yours. I like to think for myself.

My first use of GNU/Linux in 2001 was so remarkably better than what I had been using, I feel it is important work to share GNU/Linux with the world. I have been blessed by working in schools where students and school systems have benefited by good, modular software easily installed in most systems.

I have shown GNU/Linux to thousands of students and hundreds of teachers over the years and will continue in some way doing that until I die in spite of the opposition.